How to fix Flutter stuck at “running pod install…” when running on vscode building on iPhone simulator.

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This can frustrating, I encountered this flutter issue on my iPhone simulator 3 times in a row when dealing with firebase authentication, google sign, and Facebook login in so I decided to write it down to help you guys. Here is the quick solution if you are stuck at “running pod install…” when running ios simulator on Flutter.

How does this error happen?

This happened when I copy and paste a plugin or flutter pub package,firebase_authon pubspec.yaml while a build is running on the iPhone simulator. Although the installation was successful, there is an error showing the plugin is missing. So I stop and re-run the app on the iPhone simulator and it got stuck at “running pod install…”.

This is the error on my vscode debug console.

flutter: error:MissingPluginException(No implementation found for method

Solution

1. Delete the podfile.lock file from the ios folder.
2. Open the terminal, go to ios folder directory and run Pod install . It could take some time to install.